“As I was wheeled into the operating room I pleaded with God for one more day, one more week, one more month with her.” PrayerLossBirthPregnancyMiscarriageSpecial Needs Book:Love for Our Afflictions: Allowing Pain to Pave the Way to Peace Source: Love for Our Afflictions: Allowing Pain to Pave the Way to Peace
“Why is it so easy to abandon ourselves, and why do we so easily fall into the illusion that this self-abandonment is the only way people will like us?” FriendshipAcceptanceSelf AwarenessAbondonment Author:Ariana Carruth
“Finding her meant that I could move forward unabashedly, without fear of rejection, without the endless need for acceptance from my husband or from anyone else. My worth was decided by me, now.” InspirationalRelationshipsMarriageFinding YourselfInfidelity Book:Love for Our Afflictions: Allowing Pain to Pave the Way to Peace Source: Love for Our Afflictions: Allowing Pain to Pave the Way to Peace
“In the dim light of today are the shadows of yesterday’s affliction and the hope of tomorrow’s gifts.” InspirationalHopeGrief And LossGrief InspirationalPregnancy LossAfflictions Author:Ariana Carruth
“When we start rating each other’s lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.” InspirationalHumanityGriefCompassionThought ProvokingAfflictionPregnancy Loss Author:Ariana Carruth
“It was all about release, about letting go of the unknowns. I was having a disabled child and that was that. There were no hidden truths to discover. I would not know anything about her birth, her survivability odds, all her ailments, until her life actually unfolded.” Special Needs Children Book:Love for Our Afflictions: Allowing Pain to Pave the Way to Peace Source: Love for Our Afflictions: Allowing Pain to Pave the Way to Peace